The Ring Magazine, June 2025 • GEORGE FOREMAN SPECIAL ISSUE
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Where two worlds make one
DEPARTMENTS 4 OPENING SHOTS
60 GEORGE VS. GEORGE FOREMAN SHOWED THE WORLD TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF HIMSELF – AND BOTH WERE REMARKABLE By Don Stradley 68 THE CYCLONE IN THE STORM BARRY MCGUIGAN’S VICTORY OVER EUSEBIO PEDROZA PROVIDED AN EXTRAORDINARY MOMENT OF UNITY DURING NORTHERN IRELAND’S DARKEST TIME By Ruth Raper 74 RIGHT ON TARGET MANY HAVE PREDICTED THAT JARON “BOOTS” ENNIS WILL EVENTUALLY REACH THE POUND- FOR-POUND PINNACLE, AND SO FAR IT’S LOOKING LIKE A SAFE BET By Joseph Santoliquito 80 UNINTENDED GREATNESS BOXING WAS NEVER KENSHIRO TERAJI’S DREAM, BUT HE NOW FINDS HIMSELF AMONG THE POUND-FOR-POUND BEST FIGHTERS IN THE WORLD By Daisuke Sugiura
38 LEGENDS NEVER DIE AN ILLUSTRATED TOUR THROUGH THE INCREDIBLE LIFE AND CAREER OF BIG GEORGE FOREMAN By kronkAAArt 42 AN EPIC JOURNEY FOR SIX DECADES, BILL CAPLAN HAD A FRONT-ROW SEAT FOR THE RISE, FALL AND RETURN OF ONE OF BOXING’S GREATEST CHAMPIONS By Gareth A Davies 48 A KING AMONG KINGS FOREMAN WAS ONE OF THE LAST REMAINING LINKS TO THE AGE OF LEGENDS THAT DEFINED BOXING IN THE 1970S By Thomas Gerbasi 54 MIRACLE ON LAS VEGAS BLVD THEY SAY THE LAST THING A FIGHTER LOSES IS POWER, AND A 45-YEAR-OLD FOREMAN PROVED IT AGAINST MICHAEL MOORER By Michael Rosenthal
11 RINGSIDE By Doug Fischer 17 BERNSTEIN ON BOXING By Al Bernstein 21 STEVE’S SOAP BOX By Steve Kim 24 MY FIRST TIME By Bernard Hopkins and Tom Gray 28 BY THE NUMBERS By Don Stradley 30 RING RATINGS PACKAGE 86 FUNDAMENTALS By Lee Groves 88 FIGHT DOCTOR By Dr. Margaret Goodman 92 COMMISSIONER’S CORNER By Randy Gordon 94 FINISHING SHOTS 96 FIGHTLINE
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